Dan Rahmel
Autor de Beginning Joomla!: From Novice to Professional
Sobre El Autor
Dan Rahmel is a cofounder and partner of Coherent Data, an independent consulting company specializing in information systems and Internet marketing. He has authored and coauthored many books, including Visual Basic 6 Programmer's Reference, and contributes regularly to magazines such as DBMS, mostrar más Internet Advisor, and American Programmer. mostrar menos
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For some reason, the introductory Joomla! documentation I've seen all seems to be written for Grandma. This book is no exception: Page after page is used explaining what the web is, how a CMS is different from just using a bunch of flat HTML files, how to use FTP, and how to make Web-safe graphics. Screenshots of each page in the administrative interface are discussed ad nauseam. The single chapter on writing templates for Joomla! barely has time to discuss what goes into writing a template after explaining how to download, unzip, install and use GIMP to create graphics--the result definitely isn't adequate to explain how to make a Joomla!-based website look and act the way you want it to.
If you need help with basic web skills, I'd recommend Robin Williams and John Tollett's Non-Designer's Web Book rather than this volume. If there's a book available that actually discusses Joomla! itself in depth, I'm open to recommendations.… (más)